I had been playing Dark Cloud with minimal issues for several days. It ran about 60 fps with occasional, momentary dips. I did not pay attention to the EE numbers since it was doing fine. I have not played any other PS2 games recently or since I formatted the computer a few weeks ago.
I booted this morning and without changing any settings anywhere on the computer--I did not even do anything with the computer between closing the lid after playing the other night and trying to play again today--it now runs about 26 fps. I have read the FAQ, the quick config guide, and the game's wiki page and attempted their fixes. I have read many threads from google and from the search engine here. I have rebooted again as well as reinstalling PCSX2.
Your hardware specs - Win8 (-_-), i7 4700MQ, 12gb RAM, Intel HD Graphics 4600, HP laptop
Talking about when running around a small, empty area, increasing from the settings that worked last night to Preset 5 increases the GS% from 20s-30s to mid 70s-low 80s, EE remains about 98-100%. The title menu and load game screens remain less than 40 fps.
Task Manager and Performance Monitor report that PCSX2 uses about 11% of the CPU of the present 14% (.77 ghz) usage when I have control to run around; half that whenever the game is loading or showing me something.
The version of PCSX2- 1.2.1, listed as the 2/2/14 build at this website, I believe.
Any non default settings
I tested with and without the 8bit Plugin Config setting and had better results with. It is on. Likewise with MTVU, which I did not at first realize was not part of the Presets.
The higher the preset the better the FPS; though before it was working fine with installation default settings. I have it to Preset 5 at the moment, which does about 50 fps; 10 less than it was doing at default settings before. Preset 6 gets 60; Pre.4, 45. I am using Preset 5 at the moment. I'd like to know if we can get it back to normal without resorting to Preset 6.
if you are playing them from ISO or DVD- ISO made with ImgBurn; it does not appear to be mounted. I don't have an internal optical drive, nor have I my external drive with me.
I inexpertly conclude something's up with the CPU. It is acting like a weak CPU this morning, where it was not for days earlier in the week. I recognize that it would only be using 2 of my 4 cores, and maybe the percentages reported by Task Manager are non-linear with respect to number of cores, but it doesn't seem to me to be taxing my system at all, though it reports EE 100%. So I don't know why it was working and now is not. It could be that the days it was working were the fluke and now it has returned to expected outcomes (don't know), but it was consistently working well for longer than it has been not working well so far.
I can just play with the high preset, maybe, but since I don't know what effected this dramatic change, I'd like to try to get it working on default settings again; if something weird like this happens again and I'm already using the high presets, I don't have any next move.
I booted this morning and without changing any settings anywhere on the computer--I did not even do anything with the computer between closing the lid after playing the other night and trying to play again today--it now runs about 26 fps. I have read the FAQ, the quick config guide, and the game's wiki page and attempted their fixes. I have read many threads from google and from the search engine here. I have rebooted again as well as reinstalling PCSX2.
Your hardware specs - Win8 (-_-), i7 4700MQ, 12gb RAM, Intel HD Graphics 4600, HP laptop
Talking about when running around a small, empty area, increasing from the settings that worked last night to Preset 5 increases the GS% from 20s-30s to mid 70s-low 80s, EE remains about 98-100%. The title menu and load game screens remain less than 40 fps.
Task Manager and Performance Monitor report that PCSX2 uses about 11% of the CPU of the present 14% (.77 ghz) usage when I have control to run around; half that whenever the game is loading or showing me something.
The version of PCSX2- 1.2.1, listed as the 2/2/14 build at this website, I believe.
Any non default settings
I tested with and without the 8bit Plugin Config setting and had better results with. It is on. Likewise with MTVU, which I did not at first realize was not part of the Presets.
The higher the preset the better the FPS; though before it was working fine with installation default settings. I have it to Preset 5 at the moment, which does about 50 fps; 10 less than it was doing at default settings before. Preset 6 gets 60; Pre.4, 45. I am using Preset 5 at the moment. I'd like to know if we can get it back to normal without resorting to Preset 6.
if you are playing them from ISO or DVD- ISO made with ImgBurn; it does not appear to be mounted. I don't have an internal optical drive, nor have I my external drive with me.
I inexpertly conclude something's up with the CPU. It is acting like a weak CPU this morning, where it was not for days earlier in the week. I recognize that it would only be using 2 of my 4 cores, and maybe the percentages reported by Task Manager are non-linear with respect to number of cores, but it doesn't seem to me to be taxing my system at all, though it reports EE 100%. So I don't know why it was working and now is not. It could be that the days it was working were the fluke and now it has returned to expected outcomes (don't know), but it was consistently working well for longer than it has been not working well so far.
I can just play with the high preset, maybe, but since I don't know what effected this dramatic change, I'd like to try to get it working on default settings again; if something weird like this happens again and I'm already using the high presets, I don't have any next move.